Meet The Pioneer Of Smart Care

Tom Emerick is the Founder of Edison Healthcare and has recently retired and been succeeded as CEO by Managing Partner Jarrod Frie. Prior to Edison, Tom was with Walmart, where he designed and managed benefits for over 1.3 million employees as VP of Global Benefits Design. Prior to Walmart, Tom had executive positions with Burger King Corporation, British Petroleum, and American Fidelity Assurance Company.

Tom is a renowned author and speaker on the topic of healthcare economics. In 2009, Tom was named by Healthspottr as one of the top 100 innovators in healthcare in the U.S. for his work on medical ethics. In 2013 a Forbes.com article named Tom one of 13 “Unsung Heroes Changing Health Care Forever.” He also hosts a popular blog called “Cracking Health Costs” in which he’s published over six hundred articles on population health management. A book by the same title, an Amazon trade bestseller published in 2013, was noted by Forbes as one of the most “disruptive health books of the year".” Tom’s latest book, An Illustrated Guide to Personal Health (2015), is being used on college campuses as a core text on population health management.

Tom has served on a variety of boards, employer coalitions, and associations, including being on the board of the influential National Business Group on Health, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce Benefit Committee, and many others. He is frequently in demand as a speaker for health care conferences, such as the internationally known World Health Care Congress.